Reuters

Intensive Dutch animal farms seen vulnerable to disease

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Agriculture has helped make the Netherlands rich, but experts warn that the density of farms and the increasing number of animals in one of the most intensive agricultural ...
AG Week

Data-intensive farm management program receives $2.4 million grant, seeks participants

URBANA, Ill. – The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture recently announced a $2.4 million grant through its Agriculture and Food Research Initiative to fund an ...

Bird losses are accelerating across North America, particularly in farming regions where agriculture is most intensive

Since the 1970s, the U.S. has lost billions of birds. We now know that those losses aren’t just growing – they are ...
Salon

5 misused food and farming terms — and what they really mean

Many words we use come with hidden baggage. For instance we tend to assume that local, natural and grass-fed foods are good for our health, the environment and animal welfare, while intensive farming ...
Inside Climate News

As the Number of American Farms and Farmers Declines, Agriculture Secretary Urges Climate Action to Reverse the Trend

On Tuesday, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack helped unveil his agency’s Census of Agriculture, a huge quinquennial report that covers 6 million data points and gives the current state-of-the-state of ...
Sustainable Brands

Aleph Farms Reveals Plan to Replace the Whole Cow as Alternative to Intensive Cattle Farming

Bringing to market cell-cultured collagen is the company's next step in a system-based approach to providing a sustainable alternative to complex animal agriculture. “The cellular agriculture industry ...
Screen Daily

‘Derek Vs Derek’ review: A British farming feud roots gentle environmental documentary

James Dawson’s appealing, insightful film bows in Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival ...
Business Wire

Aleph Farms Reveals Its Strategy to Replace the Whole Cow as an Alternative to Intensive Cattle Farming

REHOVOT, Israel--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aleph Farms, the first company to grow cultivated beef steaks, today announced it is expanding its product line to include a unique platform for cell-cultured ...